Joseph Conrad Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

  Joseph Conrad

  Hate, Lying, World

  Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.48, Collector's Library

• Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Ocean, Twilight

  Joseph Conrad (2005). “A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences”, p.18, Cosimo, Inc.

• A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Writing, Eye

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.4130, e-artnow

• A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

  Joseph Conrad

  Life, Lying, Train Of Thought

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad: 20 Novels & 26 Short Stories (Including Memoirs, Essays & Letters in One Single Edition): Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists: Heart of Darkness, The Duel, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.2294, e-artnow

• Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

  Joseph Conrad

  Laughter, Lying, Exaggeration Is

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

• There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Mortality, Flavour

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

• The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth lies their true reality, which does not appear in their external outlines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Lying, Reality

• The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of empty sounds.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lying, Men, Waiting

  Joseph Conrad (2010). “Lord Jim”, p.112, Bibliolis Books

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